Oil-can holder



R. 1. RYAN.

OIL CAN HOLDER.

APPLICATION- FILED JUNE 9, 1919.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH J. RYAN, OF AKRON, .OI-IIO, ASSIGNOR TO' INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

OIL-CAN HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented'Oct. 5, 1920.

Application filed June 9, 1919. Serial No. 362,940.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RALPH J. RYAN, a

, citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Can Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and

exact specification.

matically gripping and holding an oil can,

or similar object, against displacement.

A further ob 60618 to provide aconstruction which will yieldingly hold an oil can I against accidental displacement but from which the can may be easily and quickly disengaged when desired. V c

Another object is to provide a construction which may be easily and quickly assem bled, and a construction that requires no rivets or bolts to hold the cooperating parts together.

A still further object is to provide a construction that may be manufactured cheaply since the parts are stamped from sheet metal, and the only handwork required is that required in assembling the parts.

One embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and in these drawings- Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the holder Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the reciprocable or slidable can retaining membertaken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2;

on line 66 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional View? Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view taken /aaga nst the bottom surface of the member L-10, and may be then passed through the reciprocable member in its movements, and for holding it in place on the body member. A spring is utilized in the embodiment illustrated to normally press the reciprocable member in a direction to clamp the oil can. In the construction illustrated, the body member and the reciprocable member are both stamped out of sheet metal, and no rivets or bolts are utilized.

Referring now to the drawings, the body memberlO is provided with u standing lugs 11, which are spaced apart, and are adapted to engage an oil can. The body'member also is provided with a flange 12, adapted to be secured to a support 13. A depressed guiding portion 14 is formed on the bodv memher, and this portion is recessed, as shown at 15, for a purpose hereinafter described. The body member is also provided with downwardly extending lugs 16, which are stamped out of the body member, and extend inwardly, as shown at 17, to form guidesfor the reciprocating member 18. The member 18 has an upwardly extending lug 19 adapted to cooperate with the lugs 11 in clamping an oil can, and is also provided with a downwardly extending lug 20, preferably punched out of the body portion of the member 18.

A spring 21 is secured at one end to the lug 20, and is provided at its opposite end with a loop 22, which passes through a perforation 23 formed in a downwardly extending lug 24, the latter lug being preferably Figure 1 is a view in side elevation illustrating my improved construction of oil can holder, and an oil can in place on the holder formed'integral with the body member 10.

In order to assemble the reciprocating member and the body member, the longitudinal shank portion 25 of the member 18 is passed downwardly through an aperture 26 formed [flbetween the depressed portion 14 and the main portion of the member 10. The lug 20 ,passes through the recess 15in the portion 114, and as soon as the lug has been passed through this recess the shank portion 25 of the reciprocating member is pressed fiat Fig. 7 is a bottom plan view of the mainspaces formed between the portions 17 of or body member of the oil can holder.

The invention comprises a body member having lugs adapted to cooperate in holding an oil can in place. The reciprocable memlugs 16, and the bottom surface of member 110. The spring 21 ma then be secured to and a reciprocable member, these members the lug 24, and also to t e lug 20.

From the above description, it will be that no screws or bolts are necessary for assembling the parts, and therefore the disseen that the assembling of the elements of V 2 construction is a very simple operation, and

advantage caused by the loosening of rivets and screws and bolts are avoided.

Although Ihave, in the above specification, described one specific embodiment of my'invention, and have illustrated in the drawlngs the invention employed in con-' nectlon with an oil can, 1t should be under" stood,thatthe'invention is adapted for use in connection with the other objects, and

that modifications in the construction may" be employed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as expressed in the following claims:

1. An oil can holder comprising, in combination, a body member having punched out portions spaced apart to provide guides, a reclprocable member shdably mounted on' said bodymember and engag'ed by said guides, said'body member and saidreciprocable member having lugs adapted to cooperate in holding an oil can, and resilient I portions spaced apart to provide guides, a; reciprocable member slldably mounted 011 means for connecting said body member and said re'ciprocable member.

2. 'An' oil canholder comprising, in combination, a body member having punched out said body member and engaged by said depending lugs in substantial alinement fivith said guides, and resilient means engaging 'said depending lugs for connecting said body member and said reciprocable member.

3-."An oil can holder comprising, in com- .bination, a body member having upstanding lugs, downwardly extending guiding lugs, and a depressed guiding portion, a reciprocable" member slidably mounted on said guiding member and adapted to be engaged'by saidguiding lugs and said depressedqportion, and resilient means connecting said reciprocable member and said body member.

at. An oil can holder comprising, in combination, a body member having upstandi'ng lugs, downwardly extending guiding lugs, and a depressed transverse guiding portion spaced from said guiding lugs, said depressed portion having a recess therein, and areciprocable member having an upstanding lug, a shank portion, and a downwardly extending lug adapted to be passed through said recess, and resilient means for connecting said downwardly extending lug of said reciprocable member with a downwardly extending portion of said body member, f I

Intestimony whereof afiix my signature. RALPH RYAN. 

